Overview of Mail-Art projects provided by the 99 authors of this blog which are all active in Mail-Art. If you want to enter information as well. Send an e-mail to info@iuoma.org The blog can contain all kind of projects the group wants to share. There is also a blog for a general Mail-Art Discussion. All mail-art projects published here are automatically archived in a large database for historical archiving.

31 January 2010

MOMCA – Mobile Online Museum of Contenporary Art is looking for submissions from artists throughout the world. I'm asking individual artists to submit digital artworks to show on www.momca.de - website for mobile devices like cell phones. Theme March - December 2010: Appropriation Art. In the visual arts, to appropriate means to adopt, borrow, recycle or sample aspects (or the entire form) of man-made visual culture (Wikipedia). Technique/Media/Size: Digital photos, digital paintings, digital drawings, jpg or png, width: 240 px. Animated Flash Artworks with a width of 240 px are possible. Please send min 10, max 20 works. MOMCA will present every month a new exhibit in front of the website. After this period all work will become part of the MOMCA online archive. MOMCA is a non-commercial project. There is no entrance fee for submission, and I will pay no fee for presenting. Deadline: You can mail from February 1 till September 30, 2010. I would like to link on your homepage, so please include your URL, if you want. All rights on works remain property of author.

27 January 2010

Explore the interaction of snail mail or regular mail and e-mail or the Internet as ways of communication and creating art. Make a statement about why Mail Art exists in an era or fast communication though e-mail, Internet messengers, satellite communication, radio, Internet social networks as facebook, Internet access in cellular phones, etc.

18 January 2010

Ruben Cooke began cancer treatment for relapsed Hodgkins Lymphoma at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford in the month of January, 2010. This project has been designed to provide some distraction from the reality of his situation. We plan to exhibit some or all of the work received, upon completion of Ruben’s treatment. We will be posting images of received submissions on our blog site (see below), so our contributors can stay tuned.

Video or audio pieces are also welcome, as long as they conform to the above size guidelines.

Submissions to be received by 30th April 2010.

No returns. Opportunities will be sought in the coming months to exhibit any or all of the received pieces.

By submitting your mail art, you grant us permission to display it publicly.

We’d also like to make it abundantly clear that we’re aiming to spread the word as far and wide as possible. Please pass on our blog address to everyone you think could be interested. We want our postman to know who we are.

We invite artists to submit work for a mail art project that will be exhibited from January 20-February 24, 2010. The theme for the exhibition is “indulgence”. All interpretations of the concept indulgence are welcomed. Submissions have to be postcards of any size or shape as long as they can be send through the US postal services or the post office in the country of origin. They must have traveled through the post! If you wanted to do a series over a number of days that would be great. Any techniques or media are welcome. We accept submission from January 20-February 24, 2010. Please note that all submissions will not be returned so please send copies of work.

15 January 2010

I was on your websites and they all looked great. I am doing an art piece on spiritually and religion. I would like to use mail art to produce a body of work. I was wondering if you had time to answer to following question.

My name is Ramon Lenherr and I am a graphicdesinger from St.Gallen Switzerland. I am studying visual communication at our school of art and I need some material for a non commercial schoolproject. It's a work over Designers around the world. Could you please send me some pictures of you, your office and several things. I‘ve got examples attached in the PDF.

It would be great, if I could work with real content and not like in the most cases with faked ones. If you are interessted in the result of my work, just let me know. So I will send it to you by email.

I would be happy and grateful, if some of you would spend some minutes to help me in this project.

14 January 2010

In which manner you communicate your dreams, energy and wishes to other people?What is the easiest way of communication and what does communicationmean for you?

Please send me your interpretation of this phenomenon and give your creative energy to all people who will see this exhibition :)

Artworks will be permanently displayed on my blog and on exhibitionduring August 2010 in CEH (Centro de Estudios Hispanicos), SarajevoImages of exhibition will be e-mailed (include your e-mail address, name, surname, country, address and web site if exist).

In 2010 Vancouver will host the Olympic and Paralympic Games and the Vancouver Artist Trading Card Group will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a giant ATC exhibition and trading session. All the cards received will be exhibited in March 2010 and traded on the closing night of the show.

To enter: Submit 9 standard size ATCs in a clear 9 card sleeve. Include a self addressed return mailing label and $3 (CANADIAN postage, US currency) or an International Reply Coupon.The exhibit is open to anyone from any part of the world. All cards will be traded at the end of the show (March 21, 2010) and each participant (who includes funds for return postage as specified above) will receive 9 assorted cards in return.

13 January 2010

To introduce mail art in Indonesia ,we, Bantul National Museum (BNM) an independent mini museum in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, invite all of you , mail art activist and mail art lovers, to promote our program, to introduce mail art works in Indonesia, because in Indonesia mail art not popular yet, also information about it .

Half of Young Indonesian artist don’t know about mail art. So, with this program can introducing mail art and even participated in international mail art.

BNM hopes can realized that mail art is one of visual communication that can accepted and understanding to everyone, everywhere without differences. In tis world is contain a lot of races, nations with their own languages, cultures, is for understanding and respectful each other. And visual art is one way to be communicate it.

We have a planning for an exhibition at October 10, 2010 to realized our program.

You can participated, so send your work:

Size : min. 10x15 cm; max 25x30 cm

You can send it as postcard or as a letter in envelope.Also your name, address, e-mail, contact person, and CV

9 January 2010

Thème: 23 August: International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition

The night of 22 to 23 August 1791, in Santo Domingo (today Haiti and the Dominican Republic) saw the beginning of the uprising that would play a crucial role in the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade.International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is intended to inscribe the tragedy of the slave trade in the memory of all peoples. In accordance with the goals of the intercultural project "The Slave Route", it should offer an opportunity for collective consideration of the historic causes, the methods and the consequences of this tragedy, and for an analysis of the interactions to which it has given rise between Africa, Europe, the Americas and the Caribbean.

Submissions from mail artists throughout the world in the project

23 August, International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and of its Abolition,

3 January 2010

Requesting your original mail art for display and sale to raise funds for The Claremont Forum's Prison Library Project, which sends thousands of books free to inmates throughout the country. Hundreds of volunteers package books (donated to the Project by our local community), which are then mailed in response to inmate letters requesting reading material while incarcerated. For many years, The Claremont Forum received these requests in hand-illustrated envelopes created by the prisoners who sent them. It is in this tradition that we present POSTMARKED as our very appropriate fundraiser. Please join us for this international event!Please send submissions of mail art of any size and medium to:

**** ONLY the side with the official USPS Postmark/barcode will be displayed*** Your mail art may be painted, stamped, collaged, printed, and/or otherwise decorated or constructed. It may be any shape and size that will go through the mail and receive an official postmark. It may get worn or torn through the mail, but the handling process is an important part of the theme. Only the side with the postmark can be displayed, due to space limitations, but the art doesn't have to be limited to that side. You may include any message inside the envelope, which will be opened only by the person who purchases the art envelope. All entries will be displayed online at the official postmarked blog below. You may submit more than one piece… and begin sending now!

1 January 2010

The HouseLandscape artist Kane Cunningham has used his credit card to buy a house that is about to fall into the sea.

A bungalow at Knipe Point in Scarborough, North Yorkshire – near the scene of the infamous Holbeck Hotel cliff collapse 16 years ago has been condemned after a fresh landslip. Cunningham states:

‘I’ve bought a house that will be the next one to fall over the cliff. It feels like I have no choice. I’m going to rig the house with cameras and film the last sunrise before nature claims its bounty.

‘It’s the perfect site-specific installation - a stark reminder of lost dreams, financial disaster and threatening sealevels. It’s global recession and global warming encapsulated. This little house is feet away from the edge of thecliff – it can go at any moment. The idea is to create an artwork on a scale never been seen before in North Yorkshire and to stimulate within the imagination of the public the idea that this house falling into the sea can become a work of art. If the aim of art is to stimulate discussion and debate on issues, then surely this will get people talking.'

Cunningham best known for his landscape paintings said 'My work has always been about understanding the social and political context of landscape; the house is just a development of these ideas'.

Cunningham who bought the house on his credit card for £3,000 said, 'the house was worth over £150,000 two years ago, now it is worth just a fraction of the original price. The purchase of this house on my credit card is a deliberate financial transaction suggesting the link to credit, sub prime mortgages, property ownership, debt, loans, the financial markets, property speculation, boom and bust'.

One idea, which has emerged recently as a consequence of the work, is to invite people to send me letters on any subject, these will be pinned to a wall as part of the artwork, then destroyed as the house disappears. So who knows what they may contain!

This is called the ‘Last Post’, as the address will one day cease to exist and so it’s a rare opportunity to participate in an original and unique work of art.

Finally 'The House' in many ways epitomises the decade, of unprecedented greed, of lies and deceit, the art market, credit debt, war and conflict across the world. It’s a symbol that can be interpretive in many ways.

The timing of the press release is deliberate, just after Copenhagen and just before Christmas when all focus is on the home, when families come together and when we all reflect upon things we feel are important.

Just after Christmas we will have a webcam to see the sunrise and possible destruction of the house as it goes over the cliff, so please visit the site again to see new work being produced as I go along. To include video, digital photographs, paintings, prints, sculptures and site specific work within the house as I physically deconstruct the building over the next few weeks.